I'm gonna say that mid-August started out a little strange, not crazy strange, but a little off nonetheless.
I'm gonna say that mid-August started out a little strange, not crazy strange, but a little off nonetheless. Anytime I find myself in a big dance club with smoke machines and strobe lights, I get a little discombobulated. ...Where was this you ask? Why, at the free-to-the-public SFBG B.O.B. party.

I normally avoid these kind of events, come to think of it, this was my first one. It was as I'd always imagined, all the usual B.O.B. party elements were there - music, beers, hookers from the back page, old hippys, a general array of burning man wierdos, and a wild-ass hip hop group called the Hot Tub. They were an agitated bunch and I'd say If you get a chance to see them for free, you should.
Now, is that an endorsement? ...Sure, why not.

It was strange, you'd think I would of taken pictures of the other bands that played that evening, the one's that I'm actually into, like Top Ten or Sir Lord Von Raven, but no I only took photos of the Hot Tub. Yes sir, rap music.

I really couldn't help myself, they were such an entertaining mess, my finger was glued to the shutter button. In case you were wondering, I'm pretty sure that's blood on this lady's dirty white pants. Oh, and at the beginning of their set they tackled the MC of the evening, Mr. Jello Biafra (he had to be carried out). This all brings up an interesting subject - honestly, what's more important in rock'n'roll, the music or the spectacle of the stage show? ...I've gotta say the spectacle usually wins.

Speaking of spectacles, Sam McPheeters came through town and did a little reading from his new zine CLOG (see below) at N+P.

Look at "The Master of Modern Word Usage" go! ...Like my Tats? I got this bar code on my elbow a few years ago. It's like 'hey I'm not a product! Or am I?'

Tara also later showed her short film, "Music Of China." It was pretty amazing. Serious PBS material.

It's funny how Sam has gone from a singer in a hardcore band (download that Wrangler Brutes song and blast it in your ear holes) to a stand-up comic. ...Maybe it's not such strange transition, I remember reading somewhere that in the early 90s one of the guys from SSD went on to be a comedian.

(...Enjoy the splendor of my brown pants)

As you can see, Sam McPheeters' CLOG #1 is the perfect zine for those with a cerebral cortex.

CLOG also includes PUNY, which is all drawings featuring such works as "Breast Exam, USA!"

Oh Yeah, Tina Turner is Back!(it's fun to say that sentence in a "kool-aide man" voice)

It's been a while since I shared new books and zines with you folks, so I'll keep the ball rolling and tell you about some other brand-spanking new titles we just got in (and through my persuasive power of suggestion you will buy them all, thus making me an extremely wealthy man. At which point, I will be able to inflict my diabolical plot of world domination upon the people of Earth). Let's start with COMETBUS #51!

In this issue Mr. Aaron Cometbus explores the rocky and gossip laden history of the bookstores that lined the streets of his home town, Berkeley, California (...and more specifically Telegraph Avenue).

Through a sort of oral history, he compiles the story of Moes, Codys, Shakespeare & Co. and more. It's juicy stuff, and personally, as a business owner I'm pretty fascinated with how people run their shops - how they're started and especially how they self-destruct. Thumbs up.
(ps - doesn't a spread of blurry words make for a compelling photograph?)

(Note to self: God, it's nice out. ...what am I doing in here on the computer?)

Oh right, I've got to tell you about Boys Club #2 by Matt Furie. Synopsis: It's a bizaare, ridiculous, and often hilarious, collection of one page comics that can only be described as a wild ride with a deliquent Muppet behind the wheel, that's obviously way too stoned to be driving.

Here you have Landwolf, one of the main characters of Boys Club #2. Landwolf cranks up the goodtimes to "10." He smokes bongs and surfs the swells of his friends vomit. How can you go wrong that? ...I only say this, because I think there's a little Landwolf inside all of us. (note to self: next time you see Landwolf, say "Landwolf, I want to party with you cowboy)

In some dingy office in the Mission District sits the scheming Nick Neubeck of Seems books. From this unsuspecting office, he releases a relentless onslaught of beautiful art books into the world. His latest, Muddy Treads by Peter Sutherland is no exception.

36 pages of pristinely printed photographs of the unsettling Alaskan wilderness and it's inhabitants, all packaged up on matte paper and a perfect bound spine.

The full bleeds are beautiful and the imagery provoking in it's portrayal of the not always utopian side of rural natural settings. Then again, It's possible that displaying the dystopic side of the great outdoors wasn't even the photographers intent, ...which is what makes this a good release. There is no text other than the intro, so the viewer is free to project whatever meaning they want upon the photos. Thumbs up for Muddy Treads by Peter Sutherland.

While we're on the subject of busy artists, Oliver Halsman Rosenburg was in town for a bit (shown here in the classic "Here's-a-brain-sucker-what's-it-doing?-Starving" maneuver).

As well as, old friends Jaime and Rainy

Oliver is off to roll his bones, Paris , Berlin, India, and I'm not sure where else. He's a free man, who'se just completed an epic project. Happy trails Oliver!

Now onto some more self-promotion, our September show fell through @ N+P a couple months ago, so I decided to have my own godamn art show in it's place ...well, me and Geoffrey Ellis that is. Here's the postcard for the show:

September 12th, Come one, Come all!

You guys know Geoffrey Ellis, right? He's the publisher of the most amazing SAD KIDS Zine. Super rad stuff. He's going to be releasing SAD KIDS#5, Gonerfest Edition at the show too.

...See you there?! Good. - Andrew

PS - I've been trying to update my own bloggy on the regular so check in there too, if you so desire --> amscott.org/blackhole
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We haven't been featuring many interviews as of late. Let's change that up as we check in with a few local San Francisco artists like Kevin Earl Taylor here whom we studio visited back in 2009 (PHOTOS & VIDEO). It's been awhile, Kevin...

If you like guns and boobs, head on over to the Shooting Gallery; just don't expect the work to be all cheap ploys and hot chicks. With Make Stuff by Peter Gronquist (Portland) in the main space and Morgan Slade's Snake in the Eagle's Shadow in the project space, there is plenty spectacle to be had, but if you look just beyond it, you might actually get something out of the shows.

Fifty24SF opened Street Anatomy, a new solo show by Austrian artist Nychos a week ago last Friday night. He's been steadily filling our city with murals over the last year, with one downtown on Geary St. last summer, and new ones both in the Haight and in Oakland within the last few weeks, but it was really great to see his work up close and in such detail.

Congrats on our buddies at Needles and Pens on being open and rad for 11 years now. Mission Local did this little short video featuring Breezy giving a little heads up on what Needles and Pens is all about.

Matt Wagner recently emailed over some photos from The Hellion Gallery in Tokyo, who recently put together a show with AJ Fosik (Portland) called Beast From a Foreign Land. The gallery gave twelve of Fosik's sculptures to twelve Japanese artists (including Hiro Kurata who is currently showing in our group show Salt the Skies) to paint, burn, or build upon.

Backwoods Gallery in Melbourne played host to a huge group exhibition a couple of weeks back, with "Gold Blood, Magic Weirdos" Curated by Melbourne artist Sean Morris. Gold Blood brought together 25 talented painters, illustrators and comic artists from Australia, the US, Singapore, England, France and Spain - and marked the end of the Magic Weirdos trilogy, following shows in Perth in 2012 and London in 2013.

San Francisco based Fecal Pal Jeremy Fish opened his latest solo show Hunting Trophies at LA's Mark Moore Gallery last week to massive crowds and cabin walls lined with imagery pertaining to modern conquest and obsession.

Well, John Felix Arnold III is at it again. This time, he and Carolyn LeBourgios packed an entire show into the back of a Prius and drove across the country to install it at Superchief Gallery in NYC. I met with him last week as he told me about the trip over delicious burritos at Taqueria Cancun (which is right across the street from FFDG and serves what I think is the best burrito in the city) as the self proclaimed "Only overweight artist in the game" spilled all the details.

Ever Gold opened a new solo show by NYC based Henry Gunderson a couple Saturday nights ago and it was literally packed. So packed I couldn't actually see most of the art - but a big crowd doesn't seem like a problem. I got a good laugh at what I would call the 'cock climbing wall' as it was one of the few pieces I could see over the crowd. I haven't gotten a chance to go back and check it all out again, but I'm definitely going to as the paintings that I could get a peek at were really high quality and intruiguing. You should do the same.

The paintings in the show are each influenced by a musician, ranging from Freddy Mercury, to Madonna, to A Tribe Called Quest and they are so stylistically consistent with each musician's persona that they read as a cohesive body of work with incredible variation. If you told me they were each painted by a different person, I would not hesitate to believe you and it's really great to see a solo show with so much variety. The show is fun, poppy, very well done, and absolutely worth a look and maybe even a listen.

With rising rent in SF and knowing mostly other young artists without capitol, I desired a way to live rent free, have a space to do my craft, and get to see more of the world. Inspired by the many historical artists who have longed similar longings I discovered the beauty of artist residencies. Lilo runs Adhoc Collective in Vienna which not only has a fully equipped artists creative studio, but an indoor halfpipe, and private artist quarters. It was like a modern day castle or skate cathedral. It exists in almost a utopic state, totally free to those that apply and come with a real passion for both art and skateboarding

I just wanted to share with you a piece I recently finished which took me 4 years to complete. Titled "How To Lose Yourself Completely (The September Issue)", it consists of a copy of the September 2007 issue of Vogue magazine (the issue they made the documentary about) with all faces masked with a sharpie, and everything else entirely whited out. 840 pages of fun. -Bryan Schnelle

Jeremy Fish opens Hunting Trophies tonight, Saturday April 5th, at the Los Angeles based Mark Moore Gallery. The show features new work from Fish inside the "hunting lodge" where viewers climb inside the head of the hunter and explore the history of all the animals he's killed.

Beautiful piece entitled "The Albatross and the Shipping Container", Ink on Paper, Mounted to Panel, 47" Diameter, by San Francisco based Martin Machado now on display at FFDG. Stop in Saturday (1-6pm) to view the group show "Salt the Skies" now running through April 19th. 2277 Mission St. at 19th.

For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to quit my job, move out of my house, leave everything and travel again. So on August 21, 2013 I pushed a canoe packed full of gear into the headwaters of the Mississippi River in Lake Itasca, Minnesota, along with four of my best friends. Exactly 100 days later, I arrived at a marina near the Gulf of Mexico in a sailboat.

I don't think at this point it needs to be written since the last update to Fecal Face was a long time ago, but...

I, John Trippe, have put this baby Fecal Face to bed. I'm now focusing my efforts on running ECommerce at DLX which I'm very excited about... I guess you can't take skateboarding out of a skateboarder.

It was a great 15 years, and most of that effort can still be found within the site. Click around. There's a lot of content to explore.

I'm not sure how many people are lucky enough to have The San Francisco Giants 3 World Series trophies put on display at their work for the company's employees to enjoy during their lunch break, but that's what happened the other day at Deluxe. So great.

When works of art become commodities and nothing else, when every endeavor becomes “creative” and everybody “a creative,” then art sinks back to craft and artists back to artisans—a word that, in its adjectival form, at least, is newly popular again. Artisanal pickles, artisanal poems: what’s the difference, after all? So “art” itself may disappear: art as Art, that old high thing. Which—unless, like me, you think we need a vessel for our inner life—is nothing much to mourn.

Hard-working artisan, solitary genius, credentialed professional—the image of the artist has changed radically over the centuries. What if the latest model to emerge means the end of art as we have known it? --continue reading

"[Satire] is important because it brings out the flaws we all have and throws them up on the screen of another person," said Turner. “How they react sort of shows how important that really is.” Later, he added, "Charlie took a hit for everybody." -read on

NYC --- A new graffiti abatement program put forth by the police commissioner has beat cops carrying cans of spray paint to fill in and cover graffiti artists work in an effort to clean up the city --> Many cops are thinking it's a waste of resources, but we're waiting to see someone make a project of it. Maybe instructions for the cops on where to fill-in?

The NYPD is arming its cops with cans of spray paint and giving them art-class-style lessons to tackle the scourge of urban graffiti, The Post has learned.

Shootings are on the rise across the city, but the directive from Police Headquarters is to hunt down street art and cover it with black, red and white spray paint, sources said... READ ON

We haven't been featuring many interviews as of late. Let's change that up as we check in with a few local San Francisco artists like Kevin Earl Taylor here whom we studio visited back in 2009 (PHOTOS & VIDEO). It's been awhile, Kevin...

If you like guns and boobs, head on over to the Shooting Gallery; just don't expect the work to be all cheap ploys and hot chicks. With Make Stuff by Peter Gronquist (Portland) in the main space and Morgan Slade's Snake in the Eagle's Shadow in the project space, there is plenty spectacle to be had, but if you look just beyond it, you might actually get something out of the shows.

Fifty24SF opened Street Anatomy, a new solo show by Austrian artist Nychos a week ago last Friday night. He's been steadily filling our city with murals over the last year, with one downtown on Geary St. last summer, and new ones both in the Haight and in Oakland within the last few weeks, but it was really great to see his work up close and in such detail.

Congrats on our buddies at Needles and Pens on being open and rad for 11 years now. Mission Local did this little short video featuring Breezy giving a little heads up on what Needles and Pens is all about.

Matt Wagner recently emailed over some photos from The Hellion Gallery in Tokyo, who recently put together a show with AJ Fosik (Portland) called Beast From a Foreign Land. The gallery gave twelve of Fosik's sculptures to twelve Japanese artists (including Hiro Kurata who is currently showing in our group show Salt the Skies) to paint, burn, or build upon.

Backwoods Gallery in Melbourne played host to a huge group exhibition a couple of weeks back, with "Gold Blood, Magic Weirdos" Curated by Melbourne artist Sean Morris. Gold Blood brought together 25 talented painters, illustrators and comic artists from Australia, the US, Singapore, England, France and Spain - and marked the end of the Magic Weirdos trilogy, following shows in Perth in 2012 and London in 2013.

San Francisco based Fecal Pal Jeremy Fish opened his latest solo show Hunting Trophies at LA's Mark Moore Gallery last week to massive crowds and cabin walls lined with imagery pertaining to modern conquest and obsession.

Well, John Felix Arnold III is at it again. This time, he and Carolyn LeBourgios packed an entire show into the back of a Prius and drove across the country to install it at Superchief Gallery in NYC. I met with him last week as he told me about the trip over delicious burritos at Taqueria Cancun (which is right across the street from FFDG and serves what I think is the best burrito in the city) as the self proclaimed "Only overweight artist in the game" spilled all the details.

Ever Gold opened a new solo show by NYC based Henry Gunderson a couple Saturday nights ago and it was literally packed. So packed I couldn't actually see most of the art - but a big crowd doesn't seem like a problem. I got a good laugh at what I would call the 'cock climbing wall' as it was one of the few pieces I could see over the crowd. I haven't gotten a chance to go back and check it all out again, but I'm definitely going to as the paintings that I could get a peek at were really high quality and intruiguing. You should do the same.

The paintings in the show are each influenced by a musician, ranging from Freddy Mercury, to Madonna, to A Tribe Called Quest and they are so stylistically consistent with each musician's persona that they read as a cohesive body of work with incredible variation. If you told me they were each painted by a different person, I would not hesitate to believe you and it's really great to see a solo show with so much variety. The show is fun, poppy, very well done, and absolutely worth a look and maybe even a listen.

With rising rent in SF and knowing mostly other young artists without capitol, I desired a way to live rent free, have a space to do my craft, and get to see more of the world. Inspired by the many historical artists who have longed similar longings I discovered the beauty of artist residencies. Lilo runs Adhoc Collective in Vienna which not only has a fully equipped artists creative studio, but an indoor halfpipe, and private artist quarters. It was like a modern day castle or skate cathedral. It exists in almost a utopic state, totally free to those that apply and come with a real passion for both art and skateboarding

I just wanted to share with you a piece I recently finished which took me 4 years to complete. Titled "How To Lose Yourself Completely (The September Issue)", it consists of a copy of the September 2007 issue of Vogue magazine (the issue they made the documentary about) with all faces masked with a sharpie, and everything else entirely whited out. 840 pages of fun. -Bryan Schnelle

Jeremy Fish opens Hunting Trophies tonight, Saturday April 5th, at the Los Angeles based Mark Moore Gallery. The show features new work from Fish inside the "hunting lodge" where viewers climb inside the head of the hunter and explore the history of all the animals he's killed.

Beautiful piece entitled "The Albatross and the Shipping Container", Ink on Paper, Mounted to Panel, 47" Diameter, by San Francisco based Martin Machado now on display at FFDG. Stop in Saturday (1-6pm) to view the group show "Salt the Skies" now running through April 19th. 2277 Mission St. at 19th.

For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to quit my job, move out of my house, leave everything and travel again. So on August 21, 2013 I pushed a canoe packed full of gear into the headwaters of the Mississippi River in Lake Itasca, Minnesota, along with four of my best friends. Exactly 100 days later, I arrived at a marina near the Gulf of Mexico in a sailboat.

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